------~------------------------~----~----/, 1 446 l Jammy Be/o--peds, S:a R.. XX. ;o_u_r_B_el..----oved,-UUy Beloved it mine andI ammy 1Je– . I !ovedslfaith flK Jas it the: Church had no love our ofChrifi .And isitlovelofi ~ No,butas Chrifi is the Church(!s Beloved , fo the Church is 1Chrifis !Dve againe, as we fee in this booke oft) How farre wt mv Love, my Dove. As all fireames meet in the may lo'Ve other .I fc l JJ I . . rhme:.r befides great Ocean, o et.a our oves meet m Chnll. chrijf. 1 we may love other thrngs, andwe j!Joulddoe fo, 6ut ntJ otherwife then IU they convay love to tU ftom chrift,andmay 6e meanes ofdrawingup o~tr affeC!i– ons unto chrift. We may I ~wecw,r friends(and we ought to doe fo )and other bkffi ....gs of God, but how~ Noorhe:rwife then as tokens of his love ro us : we love a thing rhac our friend fends to us, 0 but it is as it dmh convay his affeCtion to us. So mufi we love all things as they come: from Gods love to tlS in Chrift. Tbat all frwee \ And indetd -whatf<1ever we have is a love toreGli'Ve 'm lfl • clrifl,e'I.Je•laf ken,even our very amH~honsrhemfelves, whom j1 Ui() ttr are I love, I rebuke and chafii!e. luve tokenr. Againe, thar we may inflame our hearts with wu ~uft pre- the love of Chrjfi, as we are exhortedby Iude, f:~~:~:'Vhee:;tr Let us confider the vanity of all things that chrift fbould entife t s from Chrifi, and labour every lud.ver.u. day mo;-e and more to draw our affeCtions from them, as we are exhoned, Pj.1lm.45· Hearken o·dAughter 1 and confider, ~t11d ineline thine eare, forr;;et a!fo thine owne people, andthy Fat hers houfe., jo f;a/l rhe King greatly aejire thy beauty. So tf we will have Chrift to de-Jtght in us, that we may fay we are his, let u~ labour to fc-qudl:er our affections more and more from all ea~thly thmgs,
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